Re: blocklistd[...]: Key size mismatch 296 != 288

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 at 20:15, Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> In article <CAGN_6pbyP154V4Cc6i0omN01x1mndEc9FK9nkW7FrEu4ECiwMA%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
> David Brownlee  <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
> >I'm getting a stream of these from several Internet visible NetBSD-11 system
> >
> >It implies that *something* is trying to interact with blocklistd and
> >failing (or something malicious is afoot).
> >
> >Does anyone have any thoughts?
>
> Hmm, struct conf is indeed 296 bytes on x86_64 and 292 on i386 but I don't
> see anything that is 288. This file (conf.h) has not changed nice 2025.
> I would save the old db file into .old and restart blocklistd and see if
> that happens again.

That seems to have cleared the "Key size mismatch" issue - would it be
possible to add some additional check to blocklistd to help people who
have upgraded know that they would wipe their old db file?

Now I'm seeing the following, which I'm assuming is "better"? :-p

Nov 25 10:01:12 iris blocklistd[3946]: no message (Message too long)
Nov 25 10:01:12 iris blocklistd[3946]: no message (Message too long)
Nov 25 11:20:14 iris blocklistd[3946]: no message (Message too long)
Nov 25 11:20:31 iris blocklistd[3946]: no message (Message too long)
Nov 25 12:00:20 iris blocklistd[3946]: no message (Message too long)
Nov 25 12:00:20 iris blocklistd[3946]: no message (Message too long)

Thanks

David